Post by TigerHoya on Apr 9, 2008 14:52:23 GMT -5
The Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy cordially invites you to
“There Was a Man!
On Learning to Be Free”
A lecture in conjunction with the conferral of the
First Annual Rev. James V. Schall, S.J.
Award for Teaching and Humane Letters
Upon
Ralph M. McInerny
Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies
University of Notre Dame
Thursday, April 10, 2008
6:00-7:45 p.m.
Georgetown University Conference Center
Georgetown University
3800 Reservoir Road, NW 20057
RSVP requested: tocquevilleforum@georgetown.edu
Parking Information
I want to cast a sweeping eye over the career of this remarkable priest, a career
that is informed by the fact that he is first and foremost a priest, a Jesuit, a
worthy son of St. Ignatius. He is also a teacher in a Jesuit university, Georgetown,
in what is called the Government Department, but of course Father Schall is a
political philosopher. The whole cast of his mind makes it impossible to confine him
to one of the pieces of the fractured university. He must have read the ratio
studiorum early and often, and its gathering of the liberal arts under philosophy
and preeminently under theology obviously influenced him and explains the range and
depth of his work. It is not for me to comment on Father Schall the priest or Father
Schall the student. It is Schall the writer I propose to discuss: the journalist,
the essayist, the philosopher, the wise assimilator of the magisterial works of John
Paul II and Benedict XVI. He has written books on his beloved Chesterton as well a!
s on
Jacques Maritain. He has....Well he has done much, and I hope to draw attention to
his major achievements in the categories I have mentioned.
Ralph McInerny (Ph.D., Université Laval) is Professor of Philosophy and the Michael
P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he has
taught since 1955. He was director of the prestigious Medieval Institute from
1978-1985 and director of the Jacques Maritain Center from 1979-2005.
An expert in the work of Thomas Aquinas, Soren Kierkegaard, and Jacques Maritain,
McInerny has written and lectured extensively on ethics, philosophy of religion, and
medieval philosophy. He is editor of an acclaimed series of translations of
Aquinas’s commentaries and has published extensively, both academically and in the
field of fiction. In the first category are Aquinas and Analogy (CUA Press, 1996),
The Question of Christian Ethics (CUA Press, 1993), Aquinas on Human Action (CUA
Press, 1992) and the Penguin Classic, Thomas Aquinas: Selected Writing (1998). His
biography of Jacques Maritain, The Very Rich Hours of Jacques Maritain appeared in
2003, and a memoir with the title I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You: My Life and
Pastimes, in 2006. He is the author of the Father Dowling mysteries, the most recent
of which is The Widow’s Mate (2007); the Andrew Broom mysteries; the Sister Mary
Teresa mysteries; and a series of mysteries set at the University of Notre Dame, mo!
st
recently, Irish Alibi (2007).
McInerny has served as president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association,
the Metaphysical Society, the American Maritain Society, and the Fellowship of
Catholic Scholars. He has been visiting professor at nearly a dozen universities and
is the recipient of various fellowships, honors and awards, among them the
Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement award. He is a fellow of the Pontifical Academy of
St. Thomas Aquinas. His Gifford Lectures, delivered in Glasgow in 1999-2000, were
published under the title Characters in Search of Their Author (University of Notre
Dame Press, 2001). He was recently appointed to membership on President Bush’s
Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
In his spare time, McInerny founded, edited, and wrote for Crisis, a journal of lay
Catholic opinion, and penned over eighty novels. He has appeared on William F.
Buckley’s Firing Line and National Public Radio, and has lectured in nine countries,
spanning three continents.
The Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy
Department of Government
Georgetown University
3307 M Street, N.W., Suite 300
Washington, DC 20007
Tel (202) 687-8501
Fax (202) 687-8572
government.georgetown.edu/tocquevilleforum
“There Was a Man!
On Learning to Be Free”
A lecture in conjunction with the conferral of the
First Annual Rev. James V. Schall, S.J.
Award for Teaching and Humane Letters
Upon
Ralph M. McInerny
Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies
University of Notre Dame
Thursday, April 10, 2008
6:00-7:45 p.m.
Georgetown University Conference Center
Georgetown University
3800 Reservoir Road, NW 20057
RSVP requested: tocquevilleforum@georgetown.edu
Parking Information
I want to cast a sweeping eye over the career of this remarkable priest, a career
that is informed by the fact that he is first and foremost a priest, a Jesuit, a
worthy son of St. Ignatius. He is also a teacher in a Jesuit university, Georgetown,
in what is called the Government Department, but of course Father Schall is a
political philosopher. The whole cast of his mind makes it impossible to confine him
to one of the pieces of the fractured university. He must have read the ratio
studiorum early and often, and its gathering of the liberal arts under philosophy
and preeminently under theology obviously influenced him and explains the range and
depth of his work. It is not for me to comment on Father Schall the priest or Father
Schall the student. It is Schall the writer I propose to discuss: the journalist,
the essayist, the philosopher, the wise assimilator of the magisterial works of John
Paul II and Benedict XVI. He has written books on his beloved Chesterton as well a!
s on
Jacques Maritain. He has....Well he has done much, and I hope to draw attention to
his major achievements in the categories I have mentioned.
Ralph McInerny (Ph.D., Université Laval) is Professor of Philosophy and the Michael
P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he has
taught since 1955. He was director of the prestigious Medieval Institute from
1978-1985 and director of the Jacques Maritain Center from 1979-2005.
An expert in the work of Thomas Aquinas, Soren Kierkegaard, and Jacques Maritain,
McInerny has written and lectured extensively on ethics, philosophy of religion, and
medieval philosophy. He is editor of an acclaimed series of translations of
Aquinas’s commentaries and has published extensively, both academically and in the
field of fiction. In the first category are Aquinas and Analogy (CUA Press, 1996),
The Question of Christian Ethics (CUA Press, 1993), Aquinas on Human Action (CUA
Press, 1992) and the Penguin Classic, Thomas Aquinas: Selected Writing (1998). His
biography of Jacques Maritain, The Very Rich Hours of Jacques Maritain appeared in
2003, and a memoir with the title I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You: My Life and
Pastimes, in 2006. He is the author of the Father Dowling mysteries, the most recent
of which is The Widow’s Mate (2007); the Andrew Broom mysteries; the Sister Mary
Teresa mysteries; and a series of mysteries set at the University of Notre Dame, mo!
st
recently, Irish Alibi (2007).
McInerny has served as president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association,
the Metaphysical Society, the American Maritain Society, and the Fellowship of
Catholic Scholars. He has been visiting professor at nearly a dozen universities and
is the recipient of various fellowships, honors and awards, among them the
Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement award. He is a fellow of the Pontifical Academy of
St. Thomas Aquinas. His Gifford Lectures, delivered in Glasgow in 1999-2000, were
published under the title Characters in Search of Their Author (University of Notre
Dame Press, 2001). He was recently appointed to membership on President Bush’s
Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
In his spare time, McInerny founded, edited, and wrote for Crisis, a journal of lay
Catholic opinion, and penned over eighty novels. He has appeared on William F.
Buckley’s Firing Line and National Public Radio, and has lectured in nine countries,
spanning three continents.
The Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy
Department of Government
Georgetown University
3307 M Street, N.W., Suite 300
Washington, DC 20007
Tel (202) 687-8501
Fax (202) 687-8572
government.georgetown.edu/tocquevilleforum
